Estimate the magnetic field in heavy-ion collisions by virtual photon polarization and dilepton anisotropy

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20m
Poster 重离子物理 墙报展及评选

Speaker

Dr Minghua Wei (Fudan University)

Description

The measurement of the magnetic field created in high-energy heavy-ion collisions is challenging, due to the fact that the magnetic field decays so drastically that in a thermalized quark-gluon plasma the field strength becomes rather weak. By incorporating the weak magnetic effect into the medium, and especially into the production formalism of dileptons from the quark-gluon plasma, the effect of dilepton polarization is studied through the dilepton angular distribution. We find that the anisotropic coefficients in the dilepton spectrum are quite sensitive to the orientation and strength of the weak field. Accordingly, these coefficients provide ideal probes for the magnetic field in realistic experiments.

Primary authors

Li Yan (复旦大学) Dr Minghua Wei (Fudan University)

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